The President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev has signed two decrees intended to liberalize the country's export and import regime ...

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (Joint Committee) has released its report on recommended changes to whistleblower protections in the corporate...

The vast majority of respondents were positive about FinTech. Opportunities highlighted included access to finance, operational efficiency, cost-saving and competition.

A recent amendment of the Competition Act, adopted by the Hungarian Parliament on 6 December 2016, will bring about significant changes to, inter alia, the authorization of concentrations...

In a judgement delivered by the First Hall of the Civil Court on 28 September 2017, the court found an ex-director who was also general manager...

Reading through the findings of the 2022 AlixPartners Disruption Index, it was interesting to see that only 3% of the 3,000+ business executives who responded to our study said that COVID-19 was their number one worry for 2022.

In April 2017, the FCA published a Discussion Paper ("DP") on DLT which sought views on the regulatory implications of DLT developments in financial markets ...

On 5 February 2018, the Cybersecurity Bill was passed by Parliament. A draft version of this bill (Draft Bill) had previously been issued for public consultation ...

Under the new Apology Ordinance, the evidence of an apology is not admissible in any judicial, arbitral, administrative, disciplinary and regulatory proceedings for determining fault or liability.

We wrote a post earlier this month on the decision in Bilta (UK) Ltd v Royal Bank Of Scotland Plc & Anor in which the Chancellor of the High Court confirmed that, given the right set of facts...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) come in different sizes and forms. They also offer different risk exposures to different business models across different jurisdictions and their legal systems.

The San Francisco Superior Court recently denied Microsoft Corporation’s ("Microsoft"), claim for refund of over $30 mil in franchise (income) taxes plus applicable interest and penalties imposed by the California Franchise Tax Board ("FTB").

The National Assembly amended the 2015 Penal Code and introduced corporate criminal liability for certain violations and commercial bribery.

Welcome to our first global GCN survey. The topic of our first survey* which covered 74 is commercial bribery. With our international GCN network, we set out to find answers to the following six questions:

In Brazil, SunEdison paid US$533 million for three hydroelectric power plants and 14 wind farms from renewable energy company Renova Energia.

Esin Attorney Partnership contributed to Baker & McKenzie's 2015 Global Guide to Competition Litigation.

Esin Attorney Partnership and Baker McKenzie cordially presents the updated report on "Points of Comparison of Formal Restructuring Processes in US, UK and Turkey".

Content, hosting and access providers must comply with take-down orders within 4 hours

On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued a sweeping decision dramatically changing the legal landscape for California's gig economy.

This issue of the Ethics & Compliance in the Americas newsletter covers what the DOJ considers as cooperation, as updated by the new FCPA Corporate Enforcement Policy.